Results 3,601-3,620 of 4,168 for speaker:Susan O'Keeffe
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: How did that arise and can ... could that have contributed to any conflict of interests that one of your directors was-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Of course.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you. And finally, figures that ... and I understand these were figures that were released, properly released by you in 2010, indicated that four directors of Ballymore would have been paid €2.9 million between them for 2010. I am just wondering how that fits with what you have been telling us earlier about how, you know, people worked very hard and sacrificed a lot. Again, to...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you, Chair. Mr. Bruton, how many times did you seek to meet with officials from the Central Bank or from the Financial Regulator or from the NTMA in your role as financial spokesperson? Or did you ... or were you able to do that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: But would you have been very much, if you like, on the outside as an Opposition person? Does that mean that you were not given access? You wouldn't have seen documents that they had? You would have just had the briefings that were there, the financial stability reports and so on?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: How close could you get? How close did you get, or were you able to, or was it literally if you're not in government you can't come in?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Do you recall when, or if, you became aware of the NTMA's approach to their so-called safe harbouring policy of not putting deposits ... choosing not to put deposits into Irish banks from late 2007 on? Do you ... were you aware of that? Were you briefed? Did you know?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay. So that would have gone on without your knowledge? Okay. Do you recall when you became aware, leading into the crisis, say, at the Saint Patrick's Day massacre, the contracts for difference, the Seán Quinn contracts for difference in Anglo - was that something that you would have known about?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Did you ever have any informal/private briefings with bankers from any of the key banks? I'm not here referring to the meetings that the Taoiseach has referred to that you had with the banks where you went as a group, but I'm talking about you yourself.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Would you have had ... and I'm talking here now about the very brief time before the actual night of the guarantee, let's say September. Did any of the bankers seek to meet you to express their concerns, to talk to you, to see if you could be of assistance? Because we've been aware there have been all kinds of meetings going on with all kinds of bankers. Did any of them seek you out?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Sure.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: That's fine. Do you believe that while you were in opposition you had available research? Specialist technical areas, such as financial stability, did you have enough resources at your disposal, or was it up to you to create the resources?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Finally, Taoiseach, if I may: yesterday, when Sean Mulryan gave evidence, in his statement he said that if you broke it down by political party 19.5% of his disclosed political donations were given to Fine Gael. And I am wondering are there any other property developers that you are aware of, that you can name, that would have made any donations to you? And did you ask property developers...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: So you do not recall any other-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Thanks, Chair. Mr. Rabbitte, in your opening statement you say you were: bound to say ... [you] did not make the connection between our alarm at what was happening in the housing market and the risk to the banking system. I must admit ... it never occurred to me that our banks might fail. Why do you think it never occurred to ... and I think you mean "you" meaning all of you, or do you...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Well, and given that Northern Rock had had the difficulties, and various other, you know, the American banks were beginning to really struggle, and Bear Stearns and so on, was it ... what gave rise to you not making the connection, do you think?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Tánaiste, we've heard in evidence that since November 2007, you know, we've heard all about scoping documents and crisis simulation exercises and contingency and secret teams and documents briefing Department of Finance, Department of Taoiseach, all kinds of documents, talking about problems with liquidity, talking about the banks' share prices falling, talking about the decreasing...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Susan O'Keeffe: Can I interrupt, Tánaiste, because, in fact, when Mr. Cowen was giving evidence here he said - this is on page 92 - when he left ... he meant when he left his job as Minister for Finance to move on to being the Taoiseach, he said: "There wasn't a crisis at that point." That would have been late April, early May.